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Cynicism As A Modus Of Political Agency: Can It Speak To International Law?, Hengameh Saberi
Cynicism As A Modus Of Political Agency: Can It Speak To International Law?, Hengameh Saberi
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This essay is a brief tour through the philosophical journey of cynicism as a critical ethos and modus of political agency. Against colloquial and psychological uses, all with a crippling effect, it seeks to remind of the best potential of a philosophical cynical temperament for a sense of empowered agency by revisiting its travels from ancient Athens to our time. With that history in sight, it will then in a preliminary and experimental fashion imagine some possible avenues through which international law can begin to appreciate a cynical orientation as a force for good rather than an enemy to deny, …
Introduction To The Edward Elgar Research Handbook On Law And Emotion, Susan A. Bandes, Jody Lynee Madeira, Kathryn D. Temple, Emily Kidd White
Introduction To The Edward Elgar Research Handbook On Law And Emotion, Susan A. Bandes, Jody Lynee Madeira, Kathryn D. Temple, Emily Kidd White
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The role of emotion in law has long been shrouded in mystery. The legal system is built on assumptions about human behavior, including assumptions about emotion. Thus, unavoidably, understanding emotion is an essential part of building a fairer, more effective system. Yet the emergence and growth of Law and Emotion as a field of study has been slowed by the belief that merely by acknowledging emotion, scholars and jurists would undermine the rule of law. It has been further hampered by the suspicion that emotions are too ephemeral or subjective to be understood in any systematic way. For too long, …
Images Of Reach, Range, And Recognition: Thinking About Emotions In The Study Of International Law, Emily Kidd White
Images Of Reach, Range, And Recognition: Thinking About Emotions In The Study Of International Law, Emily Kidd White
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There is much critical potential in bringing together the philosophy of emotion and the study of international law. Narratives about legitimate political and legal authority have tended to either assume that it is possible to extricate emotions from political judgement, or to rest upon uncomplicated (and wholly demystified) assumptions about the legibility of emotions over time and place. Philosophers interested in emotion have regularly grappled with questions concerning an emotion’s reach and range (insofar that the emotion in question bears an intersubjective component), and recognition (comprehensibility) of emotions beyond one’s own social and political communities (or even beyond one’s self). …